How expandrive started their button or icon journey

Summary

Company name

What inspires you and how do you envision the design for your business?

ExpanDrive is a small Boston based independent software company. We make the best file access client on the planet - allowing you to securely access your remote servers just like a USB Drive, over the internet - using SFTP/FTP/S3. Our user interface generally sits in the background, and is accessed by clicking an icon in the system try. Customers complain our current icon is ugly, and looks like a stapler. We'd like something better.

Wants

- Clear and obvious silhouette
- Hand tuned to look good at 16x16 and 32x32
- Hand tuned to look good in color in Windows, and Grayscale on Mac